Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 353
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer: £850
Frank Garfield Stephens. Warwickshire C.C.C. 1907-1912. Gold cigarette case presented to Stephens having been a playing member of the Warwickshire team who won the County Championship in 1911. The case, measuring 3”x2.25”, is nicely engraved and inscribed with the Warwickshire emblem of the ‘Bear and ragged staff’ to face and ‘Warwickshire County Cricket Club. Champions 1911. F.G. Stephens’. Nine carat gold, hallmarked Birmingham 1911. Approximate weight, 57g. VG
Frank Stephens was the twin Brother of George William Stephens who also played for Warwickshire between 1907-1925. Frank Stephens played 32 matches for Warwickshire over a six year period, eleven matches in 1911 where he scored 528 runs with a top score of 96, including five half centuries, and an average of 33. Warwickshire won their first Championship in 1911, winning thirteen of the twenty matches played